Arkansas state Rep. Kim Hendren (R-of course) believes that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States should be banned from schools. State Rep. Hendren wrote a bill about it.
For An Act To Be Entitled
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OR OPEN
ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FROM INCLUDING IN
ITS CURRICULUM OR COURSE MATERIALS FOR A PROGRAM OF
STUDY BOOKS OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL AUTHORED BY OR
CONCERNING HOWARD ZINN; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Subtitle
TO PROHIBIT A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OR
OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
FROM INCLUDING IN ITS CURRICULUM OR
COURSE MATERIALS FOR A PROGRAM OF STUDY
BOOKS OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL AUTHORED BY
OR CONCERNING HOWARD ZINN.
This is one of those times that the “All Caps” formatting of House bills works perfectly for reading the insane way this must sound in state Rep. Hendren’s head. Here is a response from some Arkansas students.
Considering that Republicans are behind other such Cretaceous-period bills like trying to force the Bible into school’s biology education, it isn’t a total surprise that anything running in the face of #MakeAmericaGreatAgain would find be at risk for censorship.